Quotes About Conventionality

#1. It is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#2. Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. Curiosity did NOT kill the cat; conventionality did.

Lisa Laird DiRosso

#4. Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

Dodie Smith

#5. USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. I still vote civilization a nuisance, society a humbug and all conventionality a crime.

Isabella L. Bird

#7. I think one can be more honest in fiction than in a memoir.

Akhil Sharma

#8. When you kissed me like that well maybe you weren't so sorry to be marrying me after all.

Diana Gabaldon

#9. The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

Denholm Elliott

#10. I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

Wes Anderson

#11. What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it.

George Weinberg

#12. Though we are grateful for the affection 30 Rock has received from critics and hipsters, we were actually trying to make a hit show. We weren't trying to make a low-rated critical darling that snarled in the face of conventionality. We were trying to make Home Improvement and we did it wrong.

Tina Fey

#13. Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.

Bruce Barton

#14. There is a bond of fellowship in sorrow that knows no conventionality.

Harold Bell Wright

#15. The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Florence Nightingale

#16. God made the world, but the Dutch made Holland.

David Winner

#17. I want to emphasize the idea of black as intellectuality and conventionality.

Ad Reinhardt

#18. Call on literary convention, and it will gladly tell your story for you.

Mason Cooley

#19. I think it's time for the Army to understand that power should be enshrined in the people if we are to be a genuine democracy and not in any particular institution or organisation.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#20. ... She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.

Vladimir Nabokov

#21. The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.

E. M. Forster

#22. The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the reassurance and gratification of seeing the conventions fulfilled again.

Pauline Kael

#23. We are not supposed to all be the same, feel the same, think the same, and believe the same. The key to continued expansion of our Universe lies in diversity, not in conformity and coercion. Conventionality is the death of creation.

Anthon St. Maarten

#24. What future did the Jazter see for himself, exactly? Would his days of shikar continue indefinitely, or did he dare look beyond the beaches and the train stations and the alleys? Could he, in some part buried deep within, secretly crave conventionality? (Or was that too much of a heresy?)

Manil Suri

#25. Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

Francis Parkman

#26. Perhaps you confuse virtue and convention, gentlemen. Conventionality is not morality, and self-righteousness is not religion.

Juliet Gael

#27. Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.

Bill O'Reilly

#28. Conventionality is the tacit agreement to set appearances before reality, form before content ...

Ellen Key

#29. I love kids and children, and I love being a mom.

Jennie Garth

#30. Conventionality is not morality.

Charlotte Bronte

#31. All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Mark Twain